4chan may be behind attack on Twitter — Update: Twitter has reacted to this raid by removing the term from its trending topics, but evidence can still be found on Twitter Search. — Twitter saw a huge influx of fake accounts on Sunday, pushing the NSFW trending topic, #gorillapenis, all the way to the top of the list.

iPhone 3GS. Jailbreak. Mac. — Only a couple of days after George Hotz became the first hacker to release a jailbreak app for the iPhone 3GS on Windows, there's a Mac-compatible version out too. This time, Hotz got some help from two fellow coders to be able to please the Mac folks …

Decoding the HTML 5 video codec debate — The increasingly competitive browser market has at last created an environment in which emerging Web standards can flourish. One of the harbingers of the open Web renaissance is HTML 5, the next major version of the W3C's ubiquitous HTML standard.

Just How Successful is the iPhone App Store? — In Malcolm Gladwell's review of Chris Anderson's new book, “Free: The Future of a Radical Price,” he said that Apple will soon be making more money from iPhone downloads than it does from the iPhone itself. — He said this to make a point …

MI6 boss in Facebook entry row — Personal details about the life of the next head of MI6, Sir John Sawers, have been removed from social networking site Facebook amid security concerns. — The Mail on Sunday said his wife had put details about their children and the location of their flat on the site.

BT drops Phorm after customers cry foul over privacy — • Controversial online technology is dumped — • Group behind system in talks with overseas firms — BT has quietly ditched a controversial system that tracks the internet habits of its customers, developed by the technology firm Phorm …

Geeks double as scourges and sages at media summit — The media moguls attending an annual powwow staged by investment bank Allen & Co. used to be able to rest comfortably in the Idaho mountains as they mulled their next moves. — Even if they didn't hatch any big deals or bright ideas …

How I Tweet: Just the FAQs — General — Question: How can you follow so many people? — Answer: I don't read the timelines of all the people that I follow. Instead, I only deal with @s, Directs, and tweets that contain “guykawasaki” and “alltop.”

The Reality Of PR: Smile, Dial, Name Drop, Pray. — One thing I hated about being a corporate lawyer at Wilson Sonsini back in the day - we got to work on really cool deals (the last deal I worked on before leaving for a startup was the AOL/Netscape merger), but we were only brought in at the very end to paper everything.